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ROY ZIMMERMAN SINGS “REAL AMERICAN” SONGS

How do you fight recession, war, ignorance, greed and the scourge of Right Wing punditry? Why, with satire, of course.

Satirical songwriter Roy Zimmerman brings his one-man show "Roy Zimmerman: Real American" to Cannon Falls High School, 820 E Minnesota St for a performance Friday, April 2 at 7 pm. The show is sponsored by Friends and Members of the Cannon Falls Freethinkers. There is a $5 suggested donation, and all proceeds benefit the Cannon Falls Community Food Shelf.

Roy's YouTube videos have garnered over four million views and tens of thousands of comments, many of them coherent. His songs are heard on NPR and Air America and he's a featured blogger for the Huffington Post.

“Real American” is 90 minutes of Zimmerman’s funny songs and comic commentary, a tuneful examination of the American political landscape in the era of Hope and Change. Health care, the economy, same-sex marriage, climate change, Creationism, guns, taxes, abstinence and, yes, Obama all come under satirical scrutiny.

There’s a limbo-like song about Rush Limbaugh. “How low can you go?” Zimmerman sings. There’s a song about the Orange County Rolling Acres Senior Center Cannabis Club.” There’s even a “Sing-along Second Amendment.” ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuNEq7gHqF8 )

There's a decidedly Lefty slant to Roy's lyrics. "We used to have a name for Right Wing satire," he says. "We called it 'cruelty.'"

The HBO documentary “The Trials of Ted Haggard,” directed by Alexandra Pelosi features Roy’s song, “Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual.” And his tune “Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion Dollars?” landed him a mention on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, an unaccustomed honor for a folkie. ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjoshMpYfmg&feature=channel_page )

The Los Angeles Times says, “Zimmerman displays a lacerating wit and keen awareness of society’s foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer.”

During the election year of 20008, he took his satirical songs to Real America, driving 12,000 miles and flying 12,000 more to do 107 shows in 47 states. “The idea was to get out of my little Liberal cocoon of Marin County, CA, and meet some of the most Progressive people in the least Progressive places in the country.”

National Day of Reason in Minnesota by Fibonacci Blue

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St. Paul, Minnesota

May 6, 2010

Humanists, atheists and agnostics held this event in support of the separation of church and state. and as a protest to the government endorsed National Day of Prayer.

Fibonacci Blue 2010-05-06

臺灣人 (12) by Director Theophilus Raynsford Mann

Presidential Candidate 總統候選人

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TianLiang Maa

~ A Taiwanese social reformer, philosopher, photographer and film director

“Touching Fairness and Justice”

馬天亮

~ 臺灣的社會改革者，哲學家，攝影師，和電影導演

《感動的公平與正義》

TianLiang Maa, alternative spelling: Tianliang Ma, also known as Theophilus Raynsford Mann; Ma, Tianliang; Chinese: 馬天亮; 马天亮.

SUMMARY

TianLiang Maa is a naturalist, occultist, and Taoist. In 1982, Maa developed a technique for abstract photography, applied “Rayonism” into photographic works. Maa staged 32 individual, extraordinary exhibitions around Taiwan, who was the first exhibitor around Formosa. Maa’s works is the beginning of modernization in the modern abstract arts in the world. At the University of Oxford, Maa’s attractive topic was “A View of Architectural History: Towns through the Ages from Winchester through London Arrived at Oxford in England”; also an author at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan in the United States; an alumnus from Christ Church College at the University of Oxford in England, the University of Glamorgan in Wales, and National Taiwan University in Taipei on Taiwan. Maa’s works have been quoted by the scholars many times, making Maa one of the highly cited technological, artistic, and managing public administrators in the academia. Maa was listed in “Taiwan Who’s Who In Business” © 1984, 1987, 1989 Harvard Management Service.

Early Life and Record of Genealogy

TianLiang Maa possesses both Taiwanese and German surnames from birth. Usually, whenever anyone asks Maa about where he comes from, he would reply “Formosa” as he grew up and was educated in the Far East and lives in Taiwanese and Japanese lifestyles. Moreover, he often teaches and educates younger generations based on the methods of the Far Eastern teaching he experienced when he was young, though he does not oppose the Western ways of teaching and thinking. Maa takes great pride in his roots, which go back 150 years (since 1864); Maa’s ancestry originates and creates generations, and prepares younger generations to succeed their personality and ethical standards and integrity.

Education in Taiwan and a Brief of Latest Generation of History in Taiwan / Formosa

In 1980, Maa obtained his postgraduate certificate from the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University in Taipei; successfully completed another graduate studies in Information dBase III Plus and Taiwanese Traditional Chinese Mandarin Information System at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung in 1989.

In history, the Portuguese explorers discovered and called the island (Taiwan), “Formosa” (meaning “Beautiful Island”) in 1590. They are non-Chinese people; it was long a Chinese and Japanese pirate base. Fighting continued, between its original inhabitants of Taiwanese and the Chinese settlers, into the 19th century. In 1894-95 first Sino-Japanese War that ended in Manchus of the Qing (Ching) dynasty defeat, the late Manchu Qing Government forced to cede Formosa to Japan. This result was made by the Treaty of Shomonoseki in 1895 and remained under Japanese control until the end of the Second World War. Early on, Taiwan was conquered by the Qing in 1683 and for the first time became part of older China dynasty. However, today, the home country of Maa’s origin has around 165 institutions (93 universities) of higher education, which now has one of the best-educated populations in Asia. Among the major public (state) ones are the National Taiwan University (NTU) at Taipei, and National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU) at Kaohsiung. NSYSU is also called National Chun-Shan University; according to Times Higher Education 2010-2011, NSYSU ranks as the 3rd university in Taiwan, 21st in Asia, and 163rd worldwide. National Taiwan University is ranked 51 to 60 ranks on Times Higher Education World University Rankings - Top Universities by Reputation 2013, the United Kingdom (see www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/...); King's College London (KCL) (21st in the world and 6th in Europe in the 2010, QS World University Rankings), the University of London, and University of Southern California (is one of the world's leading private research universities, located in the heart of Los Angeles), afterward.

Backing to Maa’s early school-time of Taiwan Provincial Kaohsiung Industrial Senior High School (Kaohsiung Municipal Kaohsiung Industrial High school), the professional technical education, which is equivalent to Advanced Level General Certificate of Education, commonly referred to as an A-level in the United Kingdom; China Electronic Engineering College, the distance learning programme, which is in equivalence as UK’s Diploma of Higher Education / Undergraduate Diploma (as an Associate Degree in the United States). An additional, his middle education was taught by the Kaohsiung Municipal Chihjh (Ci Sian) Junior High School; and Kaohsiung Municipal San Min Elementary School was his first school in Taiwan.

Early Career

In 1989, Maa instituted Maa’s Office of Electrical Engineer, he settled himself in electrical technology and industries as a chief engineer in his early years. He put his professional and precise knowledge to good account in business management. A formal business management with business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other commercial transactions and deed. He had many customers having a business and credit relationship with his firm then he was a successful engineer.

Study Abroad and Immigration into the United Kingdom

In 1998, Maa studied abroad when he arrived in Great Britain; he studied at School of Built Environment, the University of Glamorgan (Prifysgol Morgannwg) in Merthyr Tydfil, Pontypridd, Wales for a master of science in real estate appraisal. Until the summer of 2000, Maa completed an academic course on “Towns through the Ages” from Christ Church College at the University of Oxford (is ranked the 2nd place worldwide on The Times Higher Education, World University Rankings 2012-2013

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/...) in England. Afterward, Maa immigrated into the United Kingdom in the early year of 2004.

PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS

Maa is a naturalist; he trusts spiritual naturalism and naturalistic spirituality, which teaches that “the unknown” created this wonderful world. “The unknown” arranged the nature with its law so that everything in nature is kept balanced and in order. However, human beings failed to control themselves, deliberately went against the law of nature, and resulted in disasters, which we deserved. He also is an occultist, a Taoist, and a Buddhist; but in Britain, he frequently goes to Christian and Catholic churches, where he makes friends with pastors and fathers as well as churchgoers. In his mind, he recognizes “Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart”. He is always a freethinker, does not accept traditional, social, and religious teaching, but based on his ideas: a thought or conception that potentially and actually exists in his mind as a product of mental activity - his opinion, conviction, and principle. If people have not come across eastern classics and philosophy, we are afraid that people would never understand TianLiang Maa. People cannot judge an eastern philosopher based on western ways of thinking. He studies I Ching discovering eastern classics of ancient origin consisting of 64 interrelated hexagrams along with commentaries. The hexagrams embody Taoist philosophy by describing all nature and human endeavour in terms of the interaction of yin and yang, and the classics may be consulted as an oracle.

Back in the 1990s when Maa just arrived at England, he had been offered places to do Ph.D. and LL.M. degrees (degree in Law and Politics of the European Union) by several western professors in the Great Britain. He has met all the requirements for postgraduate admissions to study at UK’s universities.

During his time at Oxford, he learnt a lot of British culture and folk-custom while carrying out research with many British and Western professors, experts, and archaeologists. This proves that Maa understands various aspects in British society, culture, and lifestyles. Of course, he does not fully understand about the perspectives of thinking of a typical British. For example, what would be the most valuable in life for a British person? What would a British want to gain from life? What is the goal in life for a British? Is it fortune or a lover? Alternatively, perhaps honour? On the other hand, maybe being able to travel around the world and see the world?

FAIRNESS and JUSTICE

As TianLiang Maa’s (馬天亮) saying are:

“Touching Fairness and Justice”

Feel good about themselves, but do not know the sufferings of the people...

Who can get easy life like them?

What is profile of modern society?

What type and style is truly solemn for this society identify?

Where “the characterization” is? Who can see? Did you see it?

《感動的公平與正義》

自我感覺良好, 不知民間疾苦...

誰能得到安逸的生活如同他們一樣？

這是個什麼樣子的社會？

這個社會認定什麼樣的類型和風格是真正莊重的?

「特徵」在那裡？誰可以看到？你看到了嗎？

Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy and Perspectives

Maa ever studied judicial review and governmental action, the impact of law and legal techniques, constitutional mechanisms for the protection of basic rights, and ensuring the integrity of commercial activity, the impact of law and legal techniques on government, policymaking, and administration, as well as the creation of markets. He tries to understand these critical trends in the political development of modern state. Maa will combine both theoretical and empirical approaches, and the conditions for democratic transition and the nature of state development in the ‘post-industrial’ era of globalisation and economic integration.

According as Maa’s legal experiences, he comprehend that “the knowledge of the law is like a deep well, out of which each man draught according to the strength of his understanding”, and, law and arbitrary power are in eternal enmity. He is also sure law and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate like clocks; they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.

The government issues a decree - an authoritative order having the force of law, which charged with putting into effect a country's laws and the administering of its functions. Any of the officials promulgate a law or put into practice relating to the government charged with the execution and administration of the nation's laws then they announce and carry out the creation of any order or new policy that will be responsible for the people.

Maa had knowledge in connexion with construction law; he also understands architectural arts, and as well learnt the forms by combining materials and parts include as an integral part concerning modern construct. I ever built urban buildings and rural architecture in different styles under new housing and building projects by the governmental administration and construction corporations.

Right now, Maa studies the problems caused by ethnic disputes and human armed conflicts in the modern society resulted code of mixed civil and criminal procedure. He wishes an agreement or a treaty to end human hostilities - the absence of war and other hostilities around the world. The interrelation and arrangement of freedom from quarrels and disagreement become harmonious relations living in peace with each other. Actually, erect peace in more friendly ways of making friendships for modern human society is comfortable in my ideal. It is like building monolithic architecture: houses and buildings for the people. Maa would like to do “something beautiful for `the unknown`”.

In the ethnic disagreement and armed conflicts as concerning the poor people and children notwithstanding they live through a bad environment on any of poor or crowded village or town in a particular manner - lived frugally. However, after years of industrialisation as a more educated population, becomes more aware of global plenum, continuing to be alive. Environmental groups are increasing and lobbing government will legislate to stop bad environmental and social practices. The establishments of human rights’ wide and untiring efforts will be alleviated people’s suffering. And as well the poor people shall meet and debate sustainable development and for a concerted government led action towards sustainability is an example that the younger generation are concerned for the future. It shall be making the younger easier for their life and make better on their lives, and help them to build a better future.

In present world, Maa really knows the full meanings of “Fundamental Human Rights and Equal Opportunities for the People”. He thinks ethics is the moral code governing the daily conduct of the individual toward those about him / her. It represents those rules or principles by which men and women live and work in a spirit of mutual confidence and service. Without going into the question of how an ethical code was formulated or why anybody should obey it, we can look at the matter in a common-sense fashion with reference to its influence upon our legal affairs. In brief, from the law point of view, a reputable ethical code embodies the qualities of accuracy, dependability, fair play, sound judgement, and service. It is based upon honesty.

No person can have an ethical code that concerns him / her alone. Living in society, as he / she must, a person encounters others whose rights must be respected as well as his / her own. An honest regard for the rights of others is an essential element of any decent code of ethics, and one that anyone must observe if anybody intends to follow that code. After all, ethics is not something apart from human beings. Indeed, there is no such thing apart from our actions and us. It is the duty, therefore, of every man and woman in legal affairs to see that his daily associations with others are truly in conformity with the plain meaning of the Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt not barratry, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not receive illegal fee and the rest”.

The knowledge Maa has, in connection with legal affairs, was usually come from his precious experiences of his past over ten year’s law and political careers. In an interval regarded as a distinct period of 1980s, he studied mixed civil and crime, and the code of mixed civil and criminal procedure for the problems caused by ethnic disputes and human armed conflicts in the modern society. He was especially one who maintains the language and customs of the group, and social security in Taiwan.

Since 30 July of 1988, Maa settled himself in law as a chief executive and scrivener at Central Legal, Real Estate, and Accounting Services Office; it is in the equivalent to a solicitor of the United Kingdom. The Office provided full legal, accounting, real estate, and commercial services to the public. He did his job as a person legally appointed by another to act as his or her agent in the transaction of business, specifically one qualified and licensed to act for plaintiffs and defendants in legal proceedings and affairs. Over and above Maa was a chairman and executive consultant at Taiwan Credit Information Company®, founded in 1994. The company offered services to the public in response to need and demand in the area of credit information.

Maa had excellent experiences in political and law work was pertaining to mixed civil and crime, the code of mixed civil and criminal procedure, construction, and commercial law abroad. The experiences of legal services related to the rights of private individuals and legal proceedings concerning these rights as distinguished. In the criminal proceedings, he did many cases for the defendants. Although an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction; but he also laid legal claim, required as useful, just, proper, or necessary to the defendants under the human rights in the meantime. This provision ensures to the defendant a real voice in the subject.

The men whose judgement we respect are those who do not allow prejudices, preferences, or personalities to influence their decisions. Profit and self-aggrandisement are likewise ignored in their determination to reach an equitable and fair settlement. What are the basic principles upon which good judgement is founded? A keen intellect, a normal emotionally, a through understanding of human nature, experience of law work, sincerity, and integrity.

Developed a Technique for Abstract Photography and Abstractionist

In 1982, Maa developed a technique for abstractive photography, which applied “rayonism” to the photographic works. In November of 1984, Maa was 26-year-old, he instructed many professors and students of National Taiwan Normal University in photography of abstract impressionism and rayonnisme in Taipei, Taiwan. The word “rayonnisme” is French for rayonism - a style of abstract painting developed in 1911 in Russia.

Photographic Exhibitions

TianLiang Maa (Theophilus Raynsford Mann) Photographic Exhibition of “Rayonnisme / Rayonism” Tour - Invitational Exhibition of Taiwan 1983-84.

一九八三〜八四年中華民國臺灣馬天亮攝影巡迴邀請展

TianLiang Maa (Theophilus Raynsford Mann) Photographic Exhibition of Rayonnisme / Rayonism (32 individual exhibitions) 1983~1985.

馬天亮『光影』攝影特展（個人展32場）1983〜1985年.

Maa staged 32 individual, extraordinary exhibitions and annual special exhibitions on photography of abstractive image and Rayonnisme around Taiwan / Formosa. Maa was the first exhibitor around the country. All of the invited displays were by the Chinese Government, cultural and artistic organisations, and sponsors. Maa’s earliest exhibition took place in the National Taiwan Arts Education Institute (Museum) on 19 December 1983 when Maa was 25 years old; Maa was the youngest exhibitor in the history of the Institute in any solo exhibitions. The Institute that was opened in March 1957, kept a collection of Maa’s work. It is currently updating the Institute’s internal organisation and strengthening co-operation with leading institutes and museums around the world. Meanwhile, it widened the institute’s scope to increase its emphasis on Taiwan’ regional culture and folk arts.

Modernization in the Modern Abstract Arts of Taiwan

Maa’s works is the beginning of modernization in the modern abstract arts of Taiwan, China and greater Chinese society in the world. The use of “modernisation” as a concept that is opposed to “Traditional” of “Conservative” ideas began with the approach of the 20th century. It spreads rapidly through academic circles, and was broadly accepted as a means to reform society. Chinese Manchu Qing (Ching) dynasty’s first steps toward modernisation began in the Tung-chih era (1862-1874) with the “Self-Empowerment Movement”. During the late 19th century, as late Manchu dynasty was confronted on all sides by foreign aggression, voices throughout society debated the most effective means to reform and strengthen the country. Some advocated “combining the best of East and West”, while others went so far as to call for “complete Westernisation”. Taiwan was at the centre of these waves of reform. Faced with direct threats against the island by foreign enemies, the Chinese Ching dynasty court took special steps to push Taiwan’s modernisation.

In a role just like that of a gardener wanting to create a rich and fertile environment for the seeds of culture, one in which Maa may sprout, grow and bloom. Maa aims to provide an educational stimulus for society by introducing his works - Maa can express the neo-romantic spirit deftly from various creations and supporting international artistic exchanges. Maa believes that the first step in creating such a new and independent state is the real emergence of culture and arts, for which the art and science of designing and erecting buildings, and fine arts (including photography and motion picture) of the civilization is a good measurement of success. For the foreseeable future, Maa should be continuing to forge ahead, working diligently and unceasingly towards its mission of raising China and Formosa / Taiwan’s culture in his spare time.

Became an Author and a Scholar

In 1980, TianLiang Maa completed his first book - scenario original “The Soul's Sentimentalizing”, also named: “Hun Yun : Jin Qi Tu Rui” 電影原著《魂韻》(衿契吐蕊) then Maa was at the age of 22. In 1983, The General Library of the University of California, Berkeley in the United States of America, collected and kept Maa’s writings - scenario original「魂韻 : 衿契吐蕊」“Hun Yun : jin qi tu rui”, included a musical composition of his own – “Sonate Nr. 1 C-dur op. 3 für Klavier (piano)”, composed on 3rd April 1977 (then Maa was 18 years old). The works were published in 1980; the theme was based on “The Soul's Sentimentalizing”. Another masterpiece was an Album of Academic Work for News Publication “TianLiang Maa (Theophilus Raynsford Mann) Photographic Exhibition of Rayonnisme / Rayonism”, published in 1985. The Hathi Trust Digital Library, the University of Michigan also collected and kept Maa’s writings.

Authorship

Maa’s articles and writings were published in more than 200 different kinds of domestic and foreign magazines, newspapers, and periodicals, in the period between May of 1972 and 1990s. It was all started when Maa was just 13-year-old. Many of which have been very influential. These have been quoted by Western and Eastern scholars many times in the last few years, making Maa one of the highly cited technological, artistic, and managing public administrators in the world in the late 20th and early 21st century. The Ministry of the Interior in Taiwan had registered Maa’s professional writings and given him two certificates of copyright. The numbers are 33080 and 33081 on 4th July of 1985; and Taiwan’s Gazette of The Presidential Office issue No. 4499, featured his writings on 4th September 1985.

Became an Academic and Film Director

Today, Maa is a professor at Space Time Life Research Academy, and a photographer, film director, and computer engineer now live and work in London.

Director Works:

FILMS:

“The Soul's Sentimentalizing” of the feature film is based on the scenario original “The Soul's Sentimentalizing” (preparation)

FASHION SHOWS:

ART EXHIBITIONS:

Musician Work:

MUSIC COMPOSITION:

PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS:

BOOKS:

Scenario Original「魂韻」(衿契吐蕊) “Hun yun: jin qi tu rui” © December 1980, © 1981, © 1983 (Date of First Publication: 31 December 1980, Second Edition on 29 July 1981, Date of Revision: Revised Edition on 8 May 1983), Languages: Chinese (traditional), and English language.

Album of Academic Work for News Publication: “TianLiang Maa (Theophilus Raynsford Mann) Photographic Exhibitions of Rayonnisme” © May 1985

新聞出版之學術著作專輯「馬天亮『光影』“Rayonism” 攝影展」© May 1985

New version of scenario original “The Soul's Sentimentalizing” (to be published)

「曾經輝煌到頂天立地」(individual biography, to be published)

“My Life, My History, and My Love” (based on a legend, to be published, a film scenario will be developed later)

「感動的公平與正義」“Touching Fairness and Justice” (political science and social studies, to be published)

Research Interests:

University of Oxford

Research Studies in Archaeology:

Maa’s attractive topic was “A View of Architectural History: Towns through the Ages from Winchester through London Arrived at Oxford in England”.

National Taiwan University

Graduate Certificate,

Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering:

Maa’s monograph of seminar was “Applied the sequence control in the electric power distribution engineering”.

University of Glamorgan

M.Sc. Course,

Master of Science in Real Estate Appraisal:

Maa’s thesis - major subject, with relevant construction law was “The Assignment is under Economics of Construction Management in Architecture”.

National Sun Yat-Sen University

Postgraduate Certificate,

Postgraduate Studies in Computing:

Maa’s required subject was Information dBase III Plus and Taiwanese Traditional Mandarin Chinese Information System. He combined academic course work and practical laboratory sessions in “Applied Mandarin Phonetic Symbols into Traditional Taiwanese Personal Computer and Its Information System”.

Associations:

Since 1980, a member of Chinese Taipei Film Archive (CTFA, National Film Archive, Taiwan; founded in 1978), The Motion Picture Foundation, R.O.C. (member of Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film, FIAF; The International Federation of Film Archives was founded in Paris in 1938 by the British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Cinémathèque Française and the Reichsfilmarchiv in Berlin.)

Commissioner of the cinema, photography, radio, and television committee of The Culture and Arts Association (Chinese Writers and Artists Association) of Taiwan ever since September 1983.

Classic member, the membership is equivalent to a doctorate membership of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering since 23 March 1984.

On 15 March 1989, Maa promoted and founded the Consortium Juridical Person Mr. TianLiang Maa Social Benefit Foundation 財團法人馬天亮先生社會公益基金會籌備處 (Social Charity 社會慈善事業) in Taiwan.

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Classic member, the membership is equal to a professor or associate professor of The Chinese Institute of Engineers since 30 September 1991.

Honours:

中華民國企業名人錄編纂委員會, 哈佛企業管理顧問公司.

On 26 August 1985, Maa was awarded a professional certificate of the Outdoor Artistry Activities issued by Education Bureau, Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan. He acquired awards and certificates of honour about twenty times from National Taiwan Arts Education Center (Museum) on 24 December 1983; Kaohsiung Municipal Social Education Center on 17 March 1984, Kaohsiung Cultural Center, Taipei Cultural Center (Taipei Municipal Social Education Hall); and Taiwan Province Government, Taipei City Government, Kaohsiung City Government, and many cultural centres and art galleries, and so on.

Careers:

Honorary Professor at Space Time Life Research Academy, 7 June 2012 to present; Professor at Space Time Life Research Academy, 1 September 2011 to 1 June 2012 in London, United Kingdom:

Academia,

Teaching and Research:

business management and consultant, political philosophy, Chinese classics, Chinese humanities, modern Chinese language and literature, photography (portrait, fashion, commercial, digital, architectural, abstract photography), visual arts and film production.

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教學與研究：

企業管理及顧問、政治哲學、中華經典 (古典漢學、文學、藝術、語言) 、中華人文、中華現代語言與文學、攝影 (人像、時裝、商業、數位/數碼、建築、抽象攝影) ，視覺藝術和影片製作。

Consultant and Translator at Eternal Life Consultants of Immigration and Translations Services, 10 March 2004 to present in London, United Kingdom:

consultants of immigration, translations, and legal services.

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永生移民顧問翻譯服務社的移民諮詢顧問和翻譯：

移民事務，翻譯和法律服務。

Computer Hardware & Networking Engineer at Maa Office of Electrical Engineer, 8 March 2004 to present in London, United Kingdom:

Computer Engineering and Network Services. Repairing of Motherboards, Monitors, Power Supplies, CD-ROM Drives; UPS, Hard Disk Drives, H.D.D Data Recovery; BIOS Programming, and all types of Computer Hardware and Software Solutions.

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計算機工程和網絡服務。維修主機板，顯示器，電源供應器，光碟機/光盘驱动器，不斷電系統，硬碟/硬盘，硬盤數據恢復，基本輸入輸出系統編程，以及所有類型的電腦/計算機硬體/硬件和軟體/軟件解決方案。

Film Director & Photographer at Photographer and Film Director (Shapely), 2 April 2007 to present in London, United Kingdom:

1) Photo, Video and Film Production; 2) Graphic Design, Web Design, Social Networking, Social Media and Advertising; 3) Architectural Design and Interior Design.

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Reformer and Philosopher at Taiwanese Social Reformer and Philosopher, 7 April 2012 (location: Los Angeles, California) to present in London, United Kingdom:

Social Reform in Taiwan

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Website

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Sonate Nr. 1 C-dur op. 3 für Klavier (piano) by Theophilus Raynsford Mann (TianLiang Maa 馬天亮) © 1977, © 1980, © 1981, © 1983. The Sonate composed on 3rd April 1977 then Maa was 18-year-old. The work was published in 1980; the theme was based on “The Soul's Sentimentalizing”.

Website

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LINKS:

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reflection in transit by B.S. Wise

5 3

Dreamer

BY PRIMUS ST. JOHN

1

There are few probabilities through

Which dreamers do not pass. . .

The first dream

Is the bright red dream

Of our mother’s heart.

It is her sacrifice

Of something eternal

In herself, for us.

The Arabs say

Blood has flowed

Let us begin again.

The heart is like a cup, or a coffer,

or a cave. It holds the image of the

sun within us. It is a center of illumination

and happiness and wisdom. To dream

of the heart is always to dream of

the importance of love. . .

The second dream is the inauguration

Of the soul. In this dream we are

Confronted by a host of birds. . .

Some were guileless

Like the doves,

Said Odo of Tusculum,

Cunning

Like the partridges.

Some came to the hand

Like the hawks.

Others fled from it

Like the hens,

Some enjoyed the company

Of people

Like swallows,

Others preferred solitude

Like the turtledoves,

But all eventually flew away.

“Living is not necessary, but navigation

is,” said Pompey the Great.

B. 1725, London

Mother devout as gunpowder

Seemingly clairvoyant

Taught her only child

To read by four

Arithmetic and Latin by six

Dies when he is seven.

I am dreaming

I am in the dark

And it is raining

And she is the rain.

To dream that you are in the dark

is a sign of difficulties ahead; if

you fall or hurt yourself you can expect

a change for the worse, but if you

succeed in groping to the light, that

is another matter. . .

Father, master of ships,

Lively in the Mediterranean trade,

Unusual qualities —

Educated in Spain, stern.

I listen to nothing

But the silence

Of my father; the dream

Says

He is the rudder

And the compass.

If, in your dreams, you see your

father and he speaks to you, it is

a sign of coming happiness. If he is

silent, or if he appears to be ill or

dead, then you may expect trouble. . .

Sent to sea at ten,

Acted like a verb in disagreement,

Of course

Bright,

But no eagle —

A mess.

I have vague

Dreams now

Of intelligent flowers.

I cannot say

If their roots

Are in the ground

Or in the air.

By seventeen

A wildflower

In the field of Jesus.

Pious, books, fasting,

Abstinence from meat,

A canon in his meditation

And silence,

But like the weeds

Loved to curse.

Flowers, one of nature’s best dreams.

This foretells great happiness, unless

you throw away the blossoms. . .

1742

A lot more flexible,

Falls in love,

Misses his ship,

A freethinker now,

Less of a thorn

In the side of God.

I dream that I

Am always with her,

A freckle on her wrist,

A flower in her hair,

A ridiculous flying fish —

Sliced

And dressed

And set on the table.

As I told you before,

He missed his ship,

Became a lover

Rather than a Jamaican

Planter,

Father as expected

Furious.

Love is a dream of contraries as far

as sweethearts are concerned. To dream

that you do not succeed in love is a

sign that you will marry and have

a happy life. To dream that you are in

the company of your lover is also fortunate. . .

Late 1743

Kidnapped into the Navy

(What else)

Coming from Mary’s house.

Taken from his own life,

Focused into new pieces.

I dream about my fortune,

A fragrance captured

In a jar,

A freckle without a wrist,

A wisp

Foxlike at the edge

Of the wind.

Fortune is a dream of contraries: the more

fortunate and successful you are in imagination,

the greater will be your real struggles. . .

How do we fit together

When we are not free?

What kind of animal are we?

How many heads do we have?

How many tails?

The sea

Is a strange piece of property

On which to discuss this,

On the hms Hardwick

One month later

Midshipman John Newton:

I have eaten war

Like a cluster

Of delicious fruit.

The ironic juices

Running from my lips

That was my dream.

The reality of war is the dream of it. Beware

of those things that appear so friendly

but have no reason. . .

1774

The Hardwick

Ordered to the East Indies.

First our hero visits Mary again.

(You’re wrong)

Almost misses ship,

Completely misses the point.

Given small boat of men

To go ashore at Plymouth,

Deserts.

My dreams here

Were father, compass,

Fog, leakage,

And ultimately, learning,

With us

Like our laundry.

We are always pulling from our past. Fossils

are the dream of the sickness of someone

you have not met for a long time. When

this happens brew herbs, add honey

and lemon, sip and inhale deeply. . .

Captured like a frog,

Returned, put in irons,

Stripped, flogged, degraded,

Returned to foremast.

This is that point many people would

call a black moment, an unfortunate

color on things. I will not do that. For

black is a contrary at funerals and our

hero has just died a little as we

all tend to from time to time. And even

though that is true I will not do

that either. I will not talk of the great

white moment of death, I will not talk

of the great blue and purple moments

in the prosperity of pain. I will not

talk of the great red or scarlet moments

of quarrels and loss of friends, or

the crimson pleasure of the unexpected,

the mental tints of yellow and orange

that show you should always expect

change, or the feeling of knowing green

because you have been on a long journey.

All the colors are conjurers when our

mysteries are being solved. And if this could

not be his dream then by now it should

be ours. . .

We are not holy

The wind says in the sails

As he works.

It has never been otherwise

Though we live in the most

Devout of stories like litmus paper

Constantly changing color

Just to prove something

Is happening.

The sadness in his dream is a good omen

for the future. It is a quest for lasting joy,

and so is punishment a dream of unexpected

pleasure. . .

Works quietly for weeks.

His silence

Darns a temperate

Healing thread

His eyes

Become an elaborate

Decorative art

Avoiding everyone.

“Every month,” said Cicero

“the moon contemplates

its trajectory

and the shrubs

and animals grow.”

He has done to himself

What is easy.

He must now blossom

Out of his new secrets

Even if joy is ephemeral.

Suddenly

He begins to sing,

Creates songs about fish

And clouds.

Fish are a dream of penetrative motion,

clouds are a dream of appearances always

in a state of change. . .

We must be patient

With the overfecundity

Of his youth.

We must let him

Climb and descend the mast

Like a weapon.

Trade him

To a slaver’s ship

To subdue the threat

To discipline

In his strangely awakening

Joy.

We must let him

Choose his monsters

And the myths

Of his own worth —

The enemy always being

The forces threatening

From within.

Paul said, “We wrestle not against flesh

and blood, but against principalities, against

powers, against the rulers of the darkness

of this world, against spiritual wickedness in

high places. . .”

Suddenly,

Begins to breathe

Different songs

In his six-months’ stay

Along the Sierra Leone coast.

Troublesome songs,

Songs of quick wit

And devastating rhymes

Ridiculing ship’s officers,

Crew loves them,

Becomes a choir.

To dream that you hear other people

singing shows that the difficulties

that will come for you will come through

your dealings with other people. . .

The irate mate

Assuming command

After the death of the captain

Threatens

To put Newton

On a man-o’-war.

The Royal Navy is not an obstacle dream;

it is an elaborate exhibition of the

nuances of living death. . .

Occupation: slave dealer

Place: Sierra Leone

On one of the Plantanes

Features: Short, white male

Name: Clow

Other information: Black wife

Name: sounds like P.I.

John Newton

Bargains his life

Into this extravagant story.

He will become a slave

Because P.I. will hate him.

He will become ill

With fever.

He will be denied

Food,

Denied water,

Tormented by Black slaves

On command,

Put to work

On a lime tree plantation

Enjoying only the scents

And dreaming

Of his earthly desires,

Will master the six books

Of Euclid,

Drawing the diagrams

With a long stick

In the wet sand.

Six is, like two, a particularly ambiguous

number to dream about, but it

establishes equilibrium. It unifies

the triangles of fire and water and

symbolizes the human soul. Six is

the hermaphrodite, a personality integrated

despite its duality.

If this is a story

Of the reasoning of slavery,

Where are we?

What have we been doing

To people,

To the light

From which life emanates?

Slavery is a story

Of procreation,

Of magic religious thinking,

Of the androgynous divinity

Within us.

No story can be this happy

Unless it is married

To something deeply within us.

It is not them

Who have done it to us,

Or us

Who have done it to them.

It is the antagonistic dream

Of unreconciled love.

To dream of erotic love is to dream of

the desire to die in the object of desire, to

dissolve in that which is already

dissolved. The Book of Baruch says erotic

desire and its satisfaction is the key

to the origin of the world. Disappointment

in love and the revenge which follows

in its wake are the roots of all the evil

and selfishness in the world. The whole

of history is the work of love.

2

“The character of the image,” said Shukrâchârya,

“is determined by the relationship between

the worshipper and the worshipped.”

On the beach,

He eats the fruit

Of his own way;

He fills himself

With his own devices;

He continues to draw

In the sand.

Each grain

Is a small,

Precise form

Of salvation

That has occurred,

A god come to earth

In another form,

A private,

Innate sacrifice.

Providence does not tire.

We are ready to go on

With the story.

It has come to this:

When his father dreams

He only sees

The broad face

Of sadness,

The soft grassland

Where only asphodels grow,

And the idea of water

Expanding into tears.

But to dream of sadness is a good

omen, a transportation of suffering to the

spiritual: this dream is like an herb,

a seasoning, a bitter root, medicinal,

something poisonous, but nevertheless

something that eventually withers away.

When you

Come on to squally weather,

When the wind

Is about SW,

When

You sway up the yard

Fix the trysail,

Put people to making

Sennit and swab,

Ask for my son.

Ask the Lamb,

The Beverly, the Golden Lyon,

Ask Job Lewis,

Have you seen my boy?

One thousand years before Christ, Solomon

said that the way of a ship in the midst

of the sea was too wonderful for him

to understand.

Meanwhile,

Clow: shamed

Into freeing his fellow

White man.

After all

They share the same hair,

The same instinctual life,

The same irrational power.

There is no victim here:

This is a story of love’s

Sadness,

Of the spirit of love’s ferocity

And savage insensibility,

And the name of Jesus

Turned in hymns,

Spewed into the fringes

Of the forest,

Spewed on the deep blue sea.

What dream is this, is that what you said?

My God, this is the dream of the dragon,

the fabulous animal, the amalgam of

aggression, the serpent, the crocodile, the

lion, what we like to think is the

antediluvian nature of love.

John is free now.

John is free to slave,

Free to be reluctant,

To give up profit

and return home.

Ask the master of the Greyhound.

Have you seen my boy?

To find money in your dream is not fortunate

at all. There will be some sudden advancement

or success, but it will prove

disappointing. Reader, remember this

statement by Virgil, “It will be pleasant

to remember these things hereafter.”

You cannot blame

The sea on a woman.

Unlike the seasons

It has no ribs

Though

It has a crown,

Wears a sheath,

Swings a sickle,

Adores the sun,

And is known

As bareheaded and leafless.

The sea is the emblem

Of the great capricious world;

The naked image of flux

Vibrating between life and death.

There is a dream called “Dire is the tossing

deep the groans; come let us heel, list

and stoop.” And when John heard this

on his way home, it was as if he

had read 2 Kings 10:16, “Come with me

[brother] and see my zeal for the lord.”

For twelve months

The Greyhound

Sought gold,

Ivory, dyer’s wood,

Beeswax,

And Newton sought the Lord.

The way of a ship in the midst of the sea

is too wonderful to understand.

Youth is not innocence.

It is not a militant puzzlement.

It is a methodological initiation

Into the ubiquitous life

Of sin.

For a life without sin

Is no life at all.

And so he wanders on

Like Paul,

So very Christian about it,

At once wretched and delivered.

Thinking with his mind

He is serving God,

But with his flesh

The law of sin.

Call out John Newton.

Call out

To Joshua, Ruth,

Samuel, Obadiah,

Esther, Zechariah,

Luke and Timothy.

The world

Is a masterfully round

Secret

That embraces everything,

And it is time

To reach into the horizon,

Now.

It is time to choose

Your ship,

And the triangle of your life

Upon the salty sea.

As you can see, dreams are without reason,

without solution, without proof, the

unedited version of our love, our aspiration,

our hurt. . . Call out John Newton. Call out. . .

Back home

Offered captaincy of ship.

Refuses.

Sails as first mate

On the Brownlow.

Collects slaves.

Takes them to South Carolina.

He begins to dream of questions: “What

was the mode used in stowing the slaves

in their apartments?”

Returns home,

Marries Mary Cattlett,

Assumes first command,

The Duke of Argyle,

140 tons burthen.

Marriage is the dream of sulfur and

mercury. Some believe it is a most fortunate

omen, a volatile conciliation, a fragile

union. They are right. It is one of the great

uncharted seas of individuation. It is

said, “If you are separated from your

opposite you consume yourself away. . .”

Dead reckoning

Magnetical Amplitude W° 25.30N°

True Amplitude W° 6.30°

Variation 19° in Western

Lattitude per Account 50° 48m

One-third of the slaves will die

In middle passage

Some say fifty million

Started the trip

Some say fifteen.

The dream of questions is a bright necklace

with two ornaments on it: liberty and

love, not truth.

“At noon some small rain. . .

Had an indifferent observation. . .”

“We take the two men-boys

For some shallop rigging,

We do not take

The two fallen-breasted women. . .”

“Dear Mary,

Today, saw

My quondam Black

Mistress P.I. —

I believe

I made her sorry

For her former ill

Treatment of me.”

The trouble with atonement is it is like

a sphinx, several parts human, several

parts bull, dog, lion, dragon, or bird.

When we are dreaming of atonement, no

matter how subtly, we must remember

we are not dreaming of a verb.

“I watch them work

The tie, tackle,

And lower lift.

The boatswain

Speaks to Bredson

About the score

In one of the strops.

Thomas Creed

Sits with his splicing fids;

Tucks the strands

Of the tack cringle.

His fingers are either

Little mystics or snakes.”

When you dream the dream of square-sail

rigging you are dreaming the dream

that the same side is always before

the wind. At the dawn of Swedish history

it was believed Erik Vädderhatt, the

King of the Svear, could turn the wind

and cruise endlessly. Ships are supposed

to be emblems of transcendental joy. . .

“Do the male slaves

Ever dance

Under these circumstances?”

“After every meal

They are made to jump

In their irons;

But I cannot call it dancing.”

“What is the term

That is usually given to it?”

“It is by the slave dealers

Called dancing.”

“Unclewed the sails.

They too in their shackles

Danced in the wind.”

“Dear Mary,

I watched the land wind

Do to the sails

What it does

To our hair.

I dreamed of dancing

With you

Into the cold water,

Our wet clothes

Like nets and entanglements

Around our desire.”

They would call them up

Two by two, equivocal,

Unmasked,

Making it possible

To be classified

Forever:

Pairs of birds,

Pairs of oxen,

Pairs of sheep,

Reptiles, lions,

Elephants, antediluvian,

Carnivorous, herbivorous,

Fabulous, beautiful,

Ugly, strange,

Cocks, locusts, bears,

Foxes, and even flies,

All of them black;

All of them in colonnade

To the gates of hell.

John did baptize

In the wilderness,

Did call out to Judæa

And Jerusalem

Come lay down

Your life

In the River Jordan,

Participate in his death

And his resurrection.

They said

They were refreshing them,

But the shackles still clanged,

And most of them still stank,

And many finding holes

In the netting

Jumped overboard

And baptized themselves

Bobbing in the adoring

Loins of the sea.

“Dear Mary,

The three greatest blessings

Of which human nature is capable

Are undoubtedly religion,

Liberty and love.”

The shape of a ship’s hull is determined by

the materials, methods of construction,

means of propulsion, use, fashion, and

whim. This is a dream of law and

the minute verities of justice, the eighth

enigma of the tarot.

First part fair,

The latter cloudy,

Winds becoming unusual,

Clouds dark, great lightning. . .

I think of what we’ve done,

My own illumination

Before it is too late:

The palm and needle whippings,

The short splice,

Blackwall hitches,

Sheet bends.

Quickly rummage

The rigging details,

The yardarm blocks,

The tackles.

Recall work

On the pintles,

The rudder head.

Have Billinge

Check barricado and stores,

Especially powder and slaves.

On this day

Of the second voyage

Of The African, 1754,

Weighed,

Bound by God’s permission

To St. Christophers,

We are ready for our justice,

To be winnowed like barley

On the threshing floor.

The great dream of the dark, with the

lonely extroverted lamp, the intuitive ship,

and the wind tossing on the innovative sea

should moor somewhere. “Why is this

so?” asked Kuo Hsi. For in our landscapes

and our seascapes are the personalized items

of our consciousness, the coarse grist

of our imagination, the flirtatious metaphors

stirring our ethics, and the boldly stroked

delineations of our unraveling possibilities

and original nature.

Through the night

We were played with

Like kittens.

The slaves spilled

Out nightmares of themselves

And groans.

We will all

Need dawn’s shawl

This morning.

I hope

She is good to us.

Osiris was slain by Set and put

together again by Isis. John will dream

like this, off and on, and then quit the

sea. This is his last voyage. He will

lose no slaves and no crew, and it will

be called a blessing. At a time like

this the Egyptians would build a

monolith to marry the enigmatic tension

between life and death. John will

change his dreams, now, from the menstrual

dreams of the slaver to the menthol dreams

of the minister. Showing the devastating evil

we do, like a storm, is only a stepping-

stone to something else.

Sing brother.

I will become sermons,

He says,

That understand what I’ve done.

Sing

I will become hymns

Bound in the skin

Of what I’ve done.

I will be patient with Cowper,

Inspiring to Wilberforce

And Wordsworth;

I will attract the awakened crowds,

The abolitionist.

I will stand at the altar.

Sing brother

Dressed in black,

Testifying,

Testifying. . .

I dream I will not be forgiving him

for the timeliness of his innocence, for

betrothing the dead to the dead,

but will be lifting

up my hands to an appetite for life

that will take slavers and slaves with me.

I wish

There was no timelessness,

That slavery was over

And so far away

It was an incredibly mysterious

Jungle —

Somewhere else.

An uncharted river

Canopied by extensive moss —

Somewhere else.

A spectacular ragged

Waterfall

Mystically expressed

Over an enormous

Obsidian wall,

But it is right here

In my pouch, today,

Like the acori beads

I have been swimming with

For hours —

Presidential, prime ministerial,

Corporate, grassroots based.

right here,

Racist, imperial, and sexist.

right here,

Woefully spendthrift

And Democratic,

Anally retentive

And Republican,

Militantly inappropriate,

And so good to itself

That it jogs.

Primus St. John, “Dreamer” from Communion: Poems 1976-1998. Copyright © 1999 by Primus St. John. Reprinted with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townshend, WA 98368-0271, coppercanyonpress.org.

Source: Communion: Poems 1976-1998 (Copper Canyon Press, 1999)

Primus St. John's poems often wed personal to public and quotidian to historical. He is as well known for his love poems as for his long poems, notably the epic poem “Dreamer,” written in the voices of the slaves and the captain aboard a slave ship. He has said that he tries “to be as comfortable with anger as [he is] with tenderness,” and this is evidenced by his nuanced handling of the human proclivity for contradiction as well as self-improvement.

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Sacred Hunger

For those interested in the history of the slave trade, Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger is an excellent and well-researched fictional accounting of the fate of one slaving ship, its owner and the many lives on board.

"Unsworth illuminates the barbaric cruelty of slavery, as well as the subtler habits of politics and character that it creates." (Publisher's Weekly)

Paul Mitchell by Ed Uthman

Courage Necklace by GoddessJoy Designs

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Focal bead by Humble Beads and courage charm by Earthenwood Beads. Aquamarine is the stone of courage and used through out the design.

by Jennifer Boyer

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Oggi è il tuo giorno fortunato #PensaLiberaMente #buongiorno #goodmorning #morning #giorno #wakeup #workout #sveglia #followup #follower #followme #7ottobre #follow #followus #enjoy #beleave #day #newday #start #freedom #freethinker #think #mind #coach #m by PensaLiberaMente Blog

_RRY0313 by Freedom From Religion Foundation

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Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins arrive at the Reason Rally. Richard Dawkins will be speaking at FFRF's 2012 convention on October 12-13 in Portland, Oregon.

More info can be found here: ffrf.org/outreach/convention/

godlessness in its full glory by roeroewade

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Baby you and me ain't nothing but mammals so let's do it like they do on the... uh, animal planet channel?

The pants have been GIMPed (not Photoshopped :P) to remove the logo. No need to advertise needlessly.

I am ok with advertising for the animal channel planet. I like their animal rescue shows, and I don't get my favorite channel, BBC America in my new place, so animal planet is one of my go-to backups.

Giordano Bruno by ArtFan70

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Ettore Ferrari, 1889, Campo De' Fiori, Parione, Roma, Lazio, ITA, sculpture

Flying Spaghetti Monster by HappyHeathenGirl

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Flying Spaghetti Monster

One of my favourite freethinkers by Dave Collier

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Pauline Boty was almost a forgotten artist, but recently the historian Simon Schama shed light on her life and career in his TV series The Story of Us. She was a fine Pop Artist and a wonderful person. Essentially she sacrificed her life to save her unborn child, refusing cancer treatment during her pregnancy. She died aged 28.

Fortunately there's an article about her on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Boty

When I looked her up I discovered that there'd been an exhibition of her work at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 2013 and I'd missed it, which was very disappointing because such exhibitions are rare and apparently none is planned for 2025.

Today the Hereios of the We’re Here! Group are visiting Freethinkers.

by Jennifer Boyer

George Floyd - I can't breathe by Eme Freethinker, Ende Mai 2020 by Bernd Sauer-Diete

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Street Art by Eme Freethinker, Ende Mai 2020.

I CAN'T BREATHE #GeorgeFloyd #IcantBreathe #sayhisname

Der Schwarze George Floyd (* 14. Oktober 1973; † 25. Mai 2020) wurde am 25. Mai 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA durch einen Polizeibeamten getötet. Das einzige Vergehen des jungen Mannes: Er wollte in einem Supermarkt mit einem gefälschten 20 Dollar-Schein bezahlen. Die darauf gerufene Polizei nahm den Mann zu viert mit bis zu ihrem Polizeiwagen. Dort kniete dann der Polizist Derek M. Chauvin über 8 Minuten auf dem Hals von George Floyd, der kurz darauf im Krankenhaus verstarb. George Floyd rief mehrmals „I can’t breathe!“ (Ich kann nicht atmen!), aber weder der Polizist, der auf ihm kniete, noch die drei weiteren Polizisten, die um ihn herumstanden haben ihm geholfen. Der grausame Vorfall wurde bekannt, weil jemand die ganze Szene gefilmt und ins Internet gestellt hatte.

Die Tötung dieses Schwarzen steht in langer trauriger US-Tradition von unbewaffneten Schwarzen, die von Polizeibeamten getötet wurden. Dieser Mord hatte tagelange wütende Aufstände in Minneapolis und anderen US-Städten zur Folge.

Auch in Deutschland gab es schon mehrere Fälle von Tötungen Schwarzer in Polizeigewahrsam, die aber hierzulande nie aufgeklärt wurden, wie z.B. der Fall Oury Jalloh in Dessau.

#GeorgeFloyd #GeorgeFloydProtests #IcantBreathe #sayhisname #saytheirnames #blacklivesmatter #blacklivematters #rassismustötet #berlin #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #rassismus #gedenken #justice4georgefloyd #NoJusticeNoPeace #polizeigewalt #StopKillingBlackPeople #ProsecuteKillerCops #berlin #streetart #urbanart #mauerpark #graffito #graffiti #art #streetartberlin #berlinstreetart #mural #ilovestreetart #streetartphotography

Roy Zimmerman, Cannon Falls, April 2 - 7PM by Ken Kressin

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